BIB_ID
137114
Accession number
MA 364.72
Creator
Smith, Robert, 1732-1801.
Display Date
1789 Feb. 24.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Address panel to "His Excellency / The Governor."
Charles Pinckney served three terms as Governor of South Carolina from 1789-1792, 1796-1798 and 1806-1808.
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The letter is written from Brabant Plantation, inherited from Robert Smith's first wife, Elizabeth Pagett.
Charles Pinckney served three terms as Governor of South Carolina from 1789-1792, 1796-1798 and 1806-1808.
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The letter is written from Brabant Plantation, inherited from Robert Smith's first wife, Elizabeth Pagett.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Offering to be a signatory to a bond of security for someone who has recently been elected as Commissioner of the Treasury.
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